Golang Build Design

The Golang Build Sublime Text package is structured as follows:

The primary user interaction happens through the Sublime Text build system, which parses the “Go.sublime-build” file

The primary build task is “go build”, but variants exists for “go test”, “go install”, “go clean” and cross-compile, which is “go build” with GOOS and GOARCH set. All of these tasks are executing by the Sublime Text command named “golang_build”.

Additional Sublime Text commands are implemented that implement the following functionality:

“golang_build_get” provides an interface to “go get”

“golang_terminal” opens a terminal to the Go workspace with all appropriate environment variables set

“golang_build_cancel” allows users to kill an in-process build

“golang_build_reopen” allows users to reopen the build output panel Each of these commands is exposed to the command palette via the file Default.sublime-commands

Configuration uses the Package Control dependency golangconfig, which allows users to set settings globally in Sublime Text, for each OS globally, per-project, or for each OS in a project

Settings exist that allow users to customize command line flags on a per-task-basis

As is dictated by the Sublime Text API, the following list shows a mapping of command to Python class name:

golang_build: GolangBuildCommand()

golang_build_get: GolangBuildGetCommand()

golang_build_cancel: GolangBuildCancelCommand()

golang_build_reopen: GolangBuildReopenCommand()

golang_build_terminal: GolangBuildTerminalCommand()

For golang_build and golang_build_get, the commands display output to the user via an output panel. Normally with Sublime Text when a reference to the sublime.View object for an output panel is requested, any existing content is erased. To prevent a jarring experience for users when a build is interrupted, a reference to each window's Golang Build output panel is held in memory and re-used when a user interrupts a running build with a new invocation.

The GolangProcess() class reprents an invocation of the go executable, and provides a queue of output information. This output queue is processed by a GolangProcessPrinter() object which adds environment information before the output starts, and summary information once completed. There is one GolangPanel() object per Sublime Text window, and it contains a lock to ensure that only one GolangProcessPrinter() may be displaying output at a time to prevent interleaved output.